no thoughts on toasting or not? not thoughts on crushing it up into a powder and integrating it in? no thoughts on soaking it in cold milk? no thoughts on hot soaking/cooking it in milk or cream.... nor any with regards to how to polish rice at home?

thanks for the thoughts. for some reason it didn't occur to me how the rice flour might thicken the mixture since everything i've never added a powder to ice cream base before.

rice milk might be the best option.... i'm hesitating to use egg yolks in it as it might taint the flavour and already threw out the idea of any vanilla in it just because of how subtle the flavour really was. unfortunately my ice cream maker functions better with a custard base :/

it is polished, but one can polish rice more. by removing more of the outter layers you'll get to the sweeter core which influences the flavour. sake is often measured by this, what percentage has been polished away as an indicator of it's quality.

i'm also wondering how much extra polishing might contribute to the flavour of such a bare bones ice cream.

This from Wikipedia:Ice creamMain article: Mochi ice cream (mochi is polished glutinous rice)Small balls of ice cream are wrapped inside a mochi covering to make mochi ice cream. In Japan this is manufactured by the conglomerate Lotte under the name Yukimi Daifuku, "snow-viewing daifuku". In the United States the grocery chains Trader Joe's, H Mart, and Mollie Stone's sell mochi ice cream in flavors of chocolate, mango, coconut, green tea, coffee, red bean, vanilla, and strawberry. Mikawaya, a Japanese-owned company operating in Los Angeles, manufactures the variety that is sold by Trader Joe's and Mollie Stone's. The New Central Market in Anchorage Alaska provides a variety of mochi and mochi ice cream products throughout Alaska. The Pinkberry, Yogen Fruz, Yogurtland, Smackers, Menchie's and Red Mango frozen yogurt chains also offer mochi as standard topping on their desserts (with Red Mango offering it on their secret menu), available upon request from customers. International frozen yogurt chains that offer mochi as a topping include Indonesia's J.CO Donuts.